This was my response to Mr. Pinks question of:
I wonder if somewhere in this process you could pose a question to your students. it's one i've been pondering, but my hunch is that your students will have more interesting answers than i could summon myself. the question would be something like this: If you had to create a new school -- or reform your current school -- so that it better develops the six senses, what one or two things would you do?
don't want to throw you off your lesson plan, but i'd love to hear how the young women and men of arapahoe would respond that one. maybe we could talk a little about it during our live blogging or some other venue?
thanks again for your great work.
cheers,
dan
Mr. Pink,
There are many things that I would love to change in our school and any school in general but, I wont go into too long of a list.
First of all, I would love to have more funding and more oppotunities for kids to join in the arts and explore further options besides the required courses of science, history...... I know that there are a lot of kids that would love to join in something creative and fun but have no time because number one, it is not required and their schedule is full with required classes. Number two, not to say that we only do things for credit and not just out of pure enjoyment but, you do not get any credit for doing an outside creative artistic thing but you do get credit for doing sports and for doing your required classes.
The second thing that I would change would have to be a change in the way that teachers teach. I would love to see a more integrated approach to teaching, including l-directed and R-directed activities. I believe that if a teacher takes a project and requires you to put, let's say, the events of WWII in a time line (sequential L-directed) and then asks you to write a statement of what the overall (big picture R-directed) effect of WWII was and has you express your feelings about the war in a creative piece such as a drawing, a song, a poem....... My history teacher did something like this but it was on the holocaust and I know that I enjoyed that project much more than any other one that we had done in that class yet because it required more than just taking information from somewhere else, interpreting it and the puting it on paper for the teacher to read. It required all of the 6 senses. I also feel as if it helped me to retain to information better.
Thank you Mr.Pink for being interested in our input and I hope you enjoy the responses. I look forward to listening to you and maybe talking to you in our future fishbowls. I have really enjoyed your book and it definitely brought new ideas to my attention.
P.S. I know you told Mrs.Smith that when she calls you Mr.Pink it makes you feel old so I appologize if I made you feel old by calling you that :-)
I wonder if somewhere in this process you could pose a question to your students. it's one i've been pondering, but my hunch is that your students will have more interesting answers than i could summon myself. the question would be something like this: If you had to create a new school -- or reform your current school -- so that it better develops the six senses, what one or two things would you do?
don't want to throw you off your lesson plan, but i'd love to hear how the young women and men of arapahoe would respond that one. maybe we could talk a little about it during our live blogging or some other venue?
thanks again for your great work.
cheers,
dan
Mr. Pink,
There are many things that I would love to change in our school and any school in general but, I wont go into too long of a list.
First of all, I would love to have more funding and more oppotunities for kids to join in the arts and explore further options besides the required courses of science, history...... I know that there are a lot of kids that would love to join in something creative and fun but have no time because number one, it is not required and their schedule is full with required classes. Number two, not to say that we only do things for credit and not just out of pure enjoyment but, you do not get any credit for doing an outside creative artistic thing but you do get credit for doing sports and for doing your required classes.
The second thing that I would change would have to be a change in the way that teachers teach. I would love to see a more integrated approach to teaching, including l-directed and R-directed activities. I believe that if a teacher takes a project and requires you to put, let's say, the events of WWII in a time line (sequential L-directed) and then asks you to write a statement of what the overall (big picture R-directed) effect of WWII was and has you express your feelings about the war in a creative piece such as a drawing, a song, a poem....... My history teacher did something like this but it was on the holocaust and I know that I enjoyed that project much more than any other one that we had done in that class yet because it required more than just taking information from somewhere else, interpreting it and the puting it on paper for the teacher to read. It required all of the 6 senses. I also feel as if it helped me to retain to information better.
Thank you Mr.Pink for being interested in our input and I hope you enjoy the responses. I look forward to listening to you and maybe talking to you in our future fishbowls. I have really enjoyed your book and it definitely brought new ideas to my attention.
P.S. I know you told Mrs.Smith that when she calls you Mr.Pink it makes you feel old so I appologize if I made you feel old by calling you that :-)